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Mooney makes hay before Australia leave lame England in an Ashes spin | Geoff Lemon
Beth Mooney’s speciality has always been pacing an innings, so one might decide it was a smart example of that to reach stumps on day two on 98 not out. If you make a hundred on the same day as someone else’s bigger one, your effort will be overlooked. Instead …
Actor Lily Collins welcomes birth of first child by surrogacy
Lily Collins, the star of Emily in Paris, has welcomed her first child via surrogacy.
Collins, 35, shared the news on Instagram with her husband, Charlie McDowell, a British-American filmmaker.
“Welcome to the centre of our world Tove Jane McDowell,” the pair wrote.
“Words will never express our endless gratitude …
‘No one but Jews lost their apartments’: how homes taken by Nazis in wartime Paris were never given back
The 1935 photograph shows Israël and Hélène Malowanczyk standing on the balcony of their second-floor apartment at 118 Avenue Parmentier in Paris’s 11th arrondissement.
The couple – he a hatmaker from Poland, she a French dressmaker – are smiling. Like almost all Parisians at the time, they rented their home, …
Barclays IT glitch locks customers out of accounts for almost 24 hours
A serious IT glitch has left some Barclays customers locked out of their accounts throughout the night and almost 24 hours on from the bank’s initial outage.
Barclays has apologised to customersand said it was “currently facing intermittent errors” with its payment system. “We’re working to fix this as quickly …
England thrashed in Test as Australia complete Women’s Ashes whitewash
“See the Ashes ignite” was the experience Cricket Australia promised fans in an attempt to persuade them to turn up to watch this series. It was a tagline that promised a hard-fought, thrilling contest. Instead, locals have had the opportunity over the past three weeks to watch England’s batting, fielding …
‘Dark and dingy’ or ‘a real loss’? Shoppers react to possible loss of WH Smith
Just two shop floor staff are on duty and shoppers are mostly serving themselves at shouty automated tills in WH Smith’s Stevenage branch, where there are boxes of goods on the floor, some empty shelves and missing signage.
Set in a faded shopping centre that was cutting-edge when it heralded …
Hamas releases more Gaza hostages under ceasefire deal with Israel
Three more Israelis – all male civilian hostages – were being released to Israel on Saturday as part of the continuing ceasefire agreement with Hamas in Gaza.
Hamas handed the first two hostages over to the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday morning before they were received …
Some games are bigger than others … so pressure is on Ireland and England
Every Six Nations fixture is a grand occasion but some games are bigger than others. Ireland and England both know how crucial today’s Dublin eliminator will be in terms of establishing early championship momentum. Listening to the upbeat pre-match tone of the visitors’ new captain, Maro Itoje – “I think …
Small UK businesses complain of being caught unawares by EU ‘red tape’
Small businesses are warning they have had to pause selling their products in the European Union and Northern Ireland since mid-December while they work out how to comply with new EU product safety regulations that caught many of them unawares.
Skye Weavers, a small family business on the Isle of …
Russian spy ship fire exposes poor state of Mediterranean fleet, say experts
A fire onboard a Russian spy ship off the coast of Syria has underlined the poor state of the Russian navy as its toehold in the Mediterranean hangs in the balance, analysts and western security services say.
got into trouble off the Syrian coast …